Not Constantinople?

Because New Amsterdam was Dutch, who were in control of the city at the time. When the Brits took over they gave it a British name - York.
Duh!

It's nobody's business but the Turks.

So take me back to Old Constantinople...

Awesome headline! Ween rocks!

"Or the distraction of the bikini-clad blonde tethered by her ankles to a Champagne-bottle-bedecked chandelier."

/books flight to Istanbul

TMBG's version... (new window)


FTFA: the distraction of the bikini-clad blonde tethered by her ankles to a Champagne-bottle-bedecked chandelier.

Pictures?

I've got this song stuck in my head now. Thanks a lot, Constantinoplermitter!

god i hate TMBG. One of the few groups i actively passionately hate, along with The Steve Miller Band and Limp Bizket.

rickythepenguin: Awesome headline! Ween rocks!

My lawn, get off of it.

/did Ween even cover that?

timujin: did Ween even cover that?

They Might Be Weeners?

SilentStrider: god i hate TMBG. One of the few groups i actively passionately hate, along with The Steve Miller Band and Limp Bizket.


i don't hate TMBG, but I think it is an emperor's new clothes type deal. the fan base is typically more educated than that of Steve Miller / Limp Bizkit, so I think there is a "we get the joke and you don't" element to their fan base. but they really suck, but no one wants to admit it.

that said, I do like the "little bee in your bonnet" song.

I have a theory that each and every band, no matter how gagtastic they are, has one good song. "Little Bee In Your Bonnet" is TMBGs. Everything else blows ass.

rickythepenguin: SilentStrider: god i hate TMBG. One of the few groups i actively passionately hate, along with The Steve Miller Band and Limp Bizket.


i don't hate TMBG, but I think it is an emperor's new clothes type deal. the fan base is typically more educated than that of Steve Miller / Limp Bizkit, so I think there is a "we get the joke and you don't" element to their fan base. but they really suck, but no one wants to admit it.

that said, I do like the "little bee in your bonnet" song.

I have a theory that each and every band, no matter how gagtastic they are, has one good song. "Little Bee In Your Bonnet" is TMBGs. Everything else blows ass.

There's a documentary on TMBG, "Gigantic" that really pushed me over into the camp of hating them, because their fans were such smug pricks, most notably the truly hateable Sarah Vowell (yeah, we get it, you talk like you're 10 and don't like anything) and public radio douche Ira Glass (yeah, we get it, you talk like a nerd because you don't want to have a "radio voice"). And I don't like the music enough to want to be in that set.

/does like the song "Ana Ng"

bikini-clad blonde tethered by her ankles to a Champagne-bottle-bedecked chandelier

What, the Mohammedans are still doing white slavery?

evil_twin_skippy: Not Constantinople?

Thread over.

/not obscure!

BACON!? *rereads* Oh...

rickythepenguin: Awesome headline! Ween rocks!

WTF? Maybe...but what does that have to do with The Four Lads (1953)?

Link (new window)

I read that as Bacon of Bosporus.

Never understood the light hearted nature of the city's renaming. It was in the aftermath of the brutal '19 - '22 Greco-Turkish War; a war which saw the massacre of Greeks, Armenians and Turks by the combatants and ended with a population exchange [expulsion of Greeks and Turks from their respective homes] resulting in the destruction of centuries (or in many cases millennium) old communities.

I bet there is some major tail in Istanbul...

no love for the Divine?

/I'm old

Mmmmm...bacon of the Bosporus.

Frosty the supervisor, lives by himself...

rickythepenguin: Awesome headline! Ween rocks!

No! They Might Be Giants rock! Ween on the other hand...

rickythepenguin: Awesome headline! Ween rocks!

Ween does, in fact, rock; however, They Might Be Giants sang the song referenced in the headline.

TMBG - great set of talent, poor execution.

Great lyrics, content yet still is mostly unlistenable.

Their 'style' is that of a comedy group with instruments.

/has every song
//loves 10% with great passion

The morning,
Alarm rings
I'm asleep but she's talking to me
She's walking round wearing all of my clothes
But we decided long ago
We'd build a time machine and go

meatofmystery: /not obscure!

Triangle Man!!!

I think TMBG really found their calling in children's music.
My daughter loves their Alphabet and numbers CD's.

actual video (not "tiny toons" version) (new window)

rickythepenguin:I do like the "little bee in your bonnet" song.

I have a theory that each and every band, no matter how gagtastic they are, has one good song. "Little Bee In Your Bonnet" is TMBGs. Everything else blows ass.

"Birdhouse in your Soul", you stupid fark.

/Pet peeve, sorry
//TMBG Fan, respects your opinion.
///Considers "Break Stuff" to be Limp Bizket's Magnum Opus

Now I have today's Song Stuck in My Head.

MINIMUM WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE..YAHH!

*cracks whip

Istanbul(not Constantinople)was originally recorded by The Four Lads in 1953...

Steve Miller sucks.

Actually, Ween did a song about Turkey's prisons, "It's Gonna Be A Long Night."

/yeah, i keed

So I had this date, in Constantinople, and it turns out, she was waiting in Istanbul.

"Turkey's Hippest City" Still not sure I'm going to go there anytime soon.

/Props to subby, though.

evil_twin_skippy: Not Constantinople?

Been a long time gone, Constantinople.

Istanbul Grows Into a Beacon on the Bosporus

Better that than growing into a Newburgh.

Good reference, subby, but poor execution.

/Big TMBG fan
//Suck it haters
///yeah I am a smug prick.

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor: Never understood the light hearted nature of the city's renaming. It was in the aftermath of the brutal '19 - '22 Greco-Turkish War; a war which saw the massacre of Greeks, Armenians and Turks by the combatants and ended with a population exchange [expulsion of Greeks and Turks from their respective homes] resulting in the destruction of centuries (or in many cases millennium) old communities.

I think the answer you were looking for was, 'People just liked it better that way'.

/you receive no points
//may god have mercy on your soul

Findanopenmic: Good reference, subby, but poor execution.

/Big TMBG fan
//Suck it haters
///yeah I am a smug prick.

Then you know the song was a cover?

What about New New York?

Jeremy Bates: zamboni: rickythepenguin: Awesome headline! Ween rocks!

WTF? Maybe...but what does that have to do with The Four Lads (1953)?

Link (new window)

Get off this man's lawn!

My lawn. Get off of it!

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor: Never understood the light hearted nature of the city's renaming. It was in the aftermath of the brutal '19 - '22 Greco-Turkish War; a war which saw the massacre of Greeks, Armenians and Turks by the combatants and ended with a population exchange [expulsion of Greeks and Turks from their respective homes] resulting in the destruction of centuries (or in many cases millennium) old communities.

*Insert Debbie Downer pic here*

zamboni: WTF? Maybe...but what does that have to do with The Four Lads (1953)?

That one farked me up. Never listen to that version when you have the Beastie Boys playing at the same time. Evil things happen.

Psychotropic: "Or the distraction of the bikini-clad blonde tethered by her ankles to a Champagne-bottle-bedecked chandelier."

/books flight to Istanbul

Just remember that every gal in Constantinople actually lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople.

So if you have a bikini-clad date in Constantinople, she'll be tethered to a chandelier in Istanbul.

mmmm Russian women on turkish beaches...